Merrion Square Christmas Pop-Up Shop
A one-day Christmas pop-up shop that will see stalls housing the works of Irish designers, makers and artisan foods line the hallways of The Irish Architectural Archive.
The Scandinavian Post-Post-Punk Revival
Youthful Nordic noise reexamining the hypnotic minimalism of the pleasures unknown.
Skyfall
...all the most objectionable and reactionary tendencies of the Bond franchise return with great conviction.
Tim Hecker + Daniel Lopatin – Instrumental Tourist
Jazz-inspired improv droning from two of the genres finest.
The Master
No major American film has ever embodied the internal, fatalistic logic of the melancholic so thoroughly
When Geniuses Collide: Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood
In an age where cinema is dominated by the clutter of uninspired Hollywood fare, from a town overpopulated with sequels and copycats, the term visionary is almost meaningless. Kubrickian in…
Cinema of Cruelty: Five Hard to Watch Michael Haneke Scenes
A guide to Haneke's history of violence.
Stubborn Heart – Stubborn Heart
London post-dubstep that thinks outside the box.
5 Broken Cameras
Few grand pronouncements are made about Israeli-Palestinian relations and politics are brought to a human level.
Films Within Films: Four Examples of Metafictive Cinema
Totally Dublin picks out four choice, contemporary examples of this meta-fictive tendency.
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
10, 000 feet deep bass droning from the esteemed Manc producer.
Main Attrakionz – Bossalinis and Fooliyones
The last of the class of 2010 – the ‘cloud rap’ ones rather than the teen rebels or Adderall weirdos – are too late to change the paradigm, but they
Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City & Meek Mill – Dreams and Nightmares
"I got now, I don't care who got next," Jay-Z once said. We do actually care though.